Levels of endogenous sugars, transcripts of rbcS and rbcL, and of RuBisCO protein in senescing sunflower leaves

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1032-1038

  Ono, Kiyomi ^a,b   Watanabe, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate; Gene expression; rbcL; rbcS; RuBisCO (EC 4.1.1.39); Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)

Indexed keywords

HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS;

EID: 0030804145     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029268     Document Type: Article

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